NAZI is PUNK

A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term can also describe the kind of music they play.

Nazi punk music is similar to most other forms of punk rock, although it usually differs by having lyrics that express hatred for minority groups such as Jews, blacks, multiracial people, and homosexuals. Nazi punk bands have played several styles of punk music, including Oi!, streetpunk and hardcore punk. Nazi skinheads who play music similar to hardcore, Oi! or heavy metal are considered part of a separate genre called Rock Against Communism.

Nazi punks often wear clothing and hairstyles typically associated with the majority of the punk subculture, such as: liberty spike or Mohawk hairstyles, leather rocker jackets, boots, chains, and metal studs or spikes.

Nazi punks should not be confused with early punks, such as Sid Vicious and Siouxsie Sioux, who incorporated Nazi imagery such as Swastikas into their image purely for shock value. Many punk bands, such as Sex Pistols and Dead Kennedys, have stated that there is no place for Nazi punks in the real punk subculture. The Dead Kennedys expressed this view in their song "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!".

The history of this faction within the punk subculture dates back as early as 1978, with an organization in England called the Punk Front. This group was a youth division of the white nationalist National Front. Although the Punk Front only lasted one year, it was successful in recruiting several English punks, as well as forming a number of white power punk bands. The white power skinhead subculture (often referred to by non-racist skinheads as boneheads) took over as the leaders of the white power music movement following the demise of the Punk Front in 1979. However, the Nazi punk subculture sparked up worldwide soon after, and appeared in the United States by the early 1980s, during the rise of the hardcore punk scene.

The neo-Nazi band Skrewdriver started off as an apolitical punk rock band, although some accounts show that vocalist Ian Stuart Donaldson held racist views at the time. In the early 1980s, the white power skinhead band Brutal Attack temporarily transformed into a Nazi punk band. They said they did that in the hopes of getting public concerts booked easier, but this tactic didn't work, and they soon returned to being a racist skinhead band. The punk band The Exploited has been accused several times of being Nazi punks, due to racist remarks and behavior of the singer Wattie Buchan, and because of alleged personal connections to members of the far right. However, none of the band's song lyrics support Nazism or fascism.